All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination.Varlo Davenport is...
Jan 20 2017 // Utah State University and a fraternity are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student accusing the school and organization of failing to act on reports of sexual assault and heavy drinking at...
Jan 10 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination.The Spectrum of St....
Jan 5 2017 // A state lawmaker wants to make Utah’s DUI threshold the strictest in the nation by lowering the blood-alcohol content limit to 0.05 percent.Though state numbers show alcohol-related driving deaths and DUI arrests are...
Dec 15 2016 // Origami Risk has acquired Kaysville, Utah-based Claimwire, a provider of automated workers’ compensation forms, compliance resources and regulatory information to the insurance industry.Terms of the deal were not...
Dec 1 2016 // Utah state medical examiners have an autopsy caseload that’s twice the recommended maximum, but the state still has a months-long delay in death investigations that’s affecting homicide investigations,...
Nov 29 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. is trying to keep dozens of customers suing over bogus accounts opened by its employees out of court, saying they agreed to resolve any disputes in arbitration when they began doing business with the...
Nov 22 2016 // Carl’s Jr. is suing Utah-based chain Apollo Burger, accusing the restaurants of knowingly copying its trademarked Western Bacon Cheeseburger.The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City claims...
Nov 7 2016 // More Utah teens have died in car crashes during the first nine months of this year than in all of 2015, according to new state data.A total of 26 teenagers had died on Utah roads as of the end of October. That compares...
Oct 26 2016 // More Utah teens have died in car crashes during the first nine months of this year than in all of 2015, according to new state data.A total of 26 teenagers have died on Utah roads so far in 2016, The Salt Lake Tribune...
Oct 7 2016 // Concerns about broken bones and safety at trampoline gyms has prompted the Provo city council to pass new regulations requiring the facilities to have supervised jumping, injury reporting and insurance.The Daily Herald...
Oct 6 2016 // Two Utah mortgage lenders will pay a total of nearly $10 million to settle allegations that they approved borrowers without documenting information like income and credit history.The U.S. Department of Justice said this...
Sep 26 2016 // Two tornados touched down hundreds of miles apart in Utah, damaging about two dozen buildings and knocking out power to thousands of people, the National Weather Service Confirmed.The severe weather on Thursday also...
Sep 19 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. was sued by customers in what may be the first of many lawsuits to come after disclosures that employees created unauthorized accounts to boost the bank’s fees.Three Utah customers sued the bank...
Sep 15 2016 // A case of the Zika virus in Utah is now the only one in the continental U.S. that’s still puzzling researchers on exactly how it spread, health officials said this week.The man caught the illness after caring for his...
Sep 14 2016 // CompWest Insurance has launched workers’ compensation insurance for artisan contractors in California and Utah. The program targets artisan construction operations with annual premiums between $25,000 and $250,000 in...
Sep 1 2016 // Citing an unpaid court fee, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Miss Utah who says she was wrongly arrested on suspicion of stealing from the skin-care company Nu Skin.The lawsuit against the city...
Aug 9 2016 // Utah Insurance Commissioner Todd E. Kiser has named Travis Wegkamp new director of the captive division.He replaces David J. Snowball, who is retiring this month. Kiser praised Snowball’s tenure as director, under...
Aug 8 2016 // Utah’s governor has signed into law a measure that makes the state the first to let authorities jam drone signals and crash the devices specifically for flying too close to wildfires.Republican Gov. Gary...
Aug 8 2016 // The case of a Utah man who contracted the Zika virus after caring for his infected father raised new questions for health experts who said last month that the investigation could guide new research into the way the disease...